Network Coding scheme behavior in a Vehicle-to-Vehicle safety message dissemination

Message dissemination is considered as a challenging task in Vehicular Ad-hoc network (VANET). In particular, safety messages, such as, road accident warning, traffic congestion warning, etc., are the most critical messages type that need to be efficiently transmitted in a wireless and mobile network where the topology changes dynamically. Many protocols have been proposed for the sake of disseminating information with a high data reachability and a low end-to-end delay in a limited bandwidth. In this work, we focus on a new trend of dissemination protocols based on the “Network Coding” (NC) scheme. Precisely, we intent to study the NC gain toward safety message dissemination and deduce its suitability in accordance to such application requirements. To this end, three NC-based protocols are proposed for the aim at thoroughly studying the impact of such technique on the safety message dissemination performance. The gain of NC scheme is studied under different traffic densities (from low to high dense network). The simulation results show that NC could be an efficient solution to overcome the intermittent connectivity in sparse network mainly for comfort applications but not suitable for safety message dissemination, especially in high dense network, since it may introduce a high transmission delay.